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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 Kings 10 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_kings/10.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_kings/10-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > 1 Kings 10</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_kings/9.htm" title="1 Kings 9">◄</a> 1 Kings 10 <a href="../1_kings/11.htm" title="1 Kings 11">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/1_kings/10.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">The Queen of Sheba Visits Solomon</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon and his relationship to the <span class="name">Lord</span>, she came to test Solomon with hard questions. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Arriving at Jerusalem with a very great caravan—with camels carrying spices, large quantities of gold, and precious stones—she came to Solomon and talked with him about all that she had on her mind. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too hard for the king to explain to her. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>When the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon and the palace he had built, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>the food on his table, the seating of his officials, the attending servants in their robes, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he made at <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or the ascent by which he went up to">a</a></sup></span> the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, she was overwhelmed.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom is true. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But I did not believe these things until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half was told me; in wisdom and wealth you have far exceeded the report I heard. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>How happy your people must be! How happy your officials, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Praise be to the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on the throne of Israel. Because of the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s eternal love for Israel, he has made you king to maintain justice and righteousness.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And she gave the king 120 talents <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 4 1/2 tons or about 4 metric tons">b</a></sup></span> of gold, large quantities of spices, and precious stones. Never again were so many spices brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>(Hiram’s ships brought gold from Ophir; and from there they brought great cargoes of almugwood <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Probably a variant of algumwood; also in verse 12">c</a></sup></span> and precious stones. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The king used the almugwood to make supports <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.">d</a></sup></span> for the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span> and for the royal palace, and to make harps and lyres for the musicians. So much almugwood has never been imported or seen since that day.)</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for, besides what he had given her out of his royal bounty. Then she left and returned with her retinue to her own country.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Solomon’s Splendor</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 25 tons or about 23 metric tons">e</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>not including the revenues from merchants and traders and from all the Arabian kings and the governors of the territories.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 15 pounds or about 6.9 kilograms; also in verse 29">f</a></sup></span> of gold went into each shield. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold, with three minas <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 3 3/4 pounds or about 1.7 kilograms; or perhaps reference is to double minas, that is, about 7 1/2 pounds or about 3.5 kilograms.">g</a></sup></span> of gold in each shield. The king put them in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then the king made a great throne covered with ivory and overlaid with fine gold. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The throne had six steps, and its back had a rounded top. On both sides of the seat were armrests, with a lion standing beside each of them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any other kingdom. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>All King Solomon’s goblets were gold, and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Nothing was made of silver, because silver was considered of little value in Solomon’s days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The king had a fleet of trading ships <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew of ships of Tarshish">h</a></sup></span> at sea along with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The whole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Year after year, everyone who came brought a gift—articles of silver and gold, robes, weapons and spices, and horses and mules.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Solomon accumulated chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or charioteers">i</a></sup></span> which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Probably Cilicia">j</a></sup></span> —the royal merchants purchased them from Kue at the current price. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 3 3/4 pounds or about 1.7 kilograms">k</a></sup></span> They also exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and of the Arameans.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>the ascent by which he went up to</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 4 1/2 tons or about 4 metric tons</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotebot">Probably a variant of <i>algumwood</i>; also in verse 12</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotebot">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 25 tons or about 23 metric tons</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 15 pounds or about 6.9 kilograms; also in verse 29</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 3 3/4 pounds or about 1.7 kilograms; or perhaps reference is to double minas, that is, about 7 1/2 pounds or about 3.5 kilograms.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew <i>of ships of Tarshish</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">i</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>charioteers</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">j</span> <span class="fnverse">28</span> <span class="footnotebot">Probably <i>Cilicia</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">k</span> <span class="fnverse">29</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 3 3/4 pounds or about 1.7 kilograms</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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